Air India Urination Case News LIVE Updates: Delhi court denies bail to Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on woman co-passenger on Air India flight

Gross Direct Tax News Live: A Delhi court on Wednesday denied bail to Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating in an inebriated condition on an elderly woman co-passenger in an Air India flight.Earlier in the day, Delhi’s Patiala House court began hearing on the bail plea of accused Mishra who urinated on the 70-year-old woman in the business class of a New York-Delhi Air India flight on November 26 last year.Advocate Manu Sharma, appearing for Mishra, submitted that the FIR lodged against him contained only one non-bailable offence. He said Mishra acknowledged that he couldn’t control his drink but the unzipping of his trousers was not driven by “sexual desire” and or aimed at outraging the complainant’s modesty.”The complainant’s case does not put him as a lustful man. The trial will take time and the man has been sacked from his job after these allegations. He is not at flight risk,” Mishra’s lawyer pleaded, adding his “client has clearly and willingly participated in the investigation related to the alleged event, with the intention to establish his innocence”. “He will continue to act in this bona fide manner and assist the police in the investigation,” Sharma added.But Delhi police submitted that Mishra has not been cooperative and opposed the bail plea, saying if he is released he can influence the complainant.Metropolitan Magistrate Komal Garg reserved the order on the plea.Another magisterial court had sent Mishra to 14-day judicial remand on Saturday, denying police his custody.The public prosecutor said that the police have filed a revision petition against the denial of remand to it and that is listed for Thursday. The court was further told on Wednesday that the statements of three crew members and two-three passengers are yet to be recorded.Mishra was arrested by the Delhi police from Bengaluru and brought to the national capital last Saturday. Mishra has been booked under sections 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person), 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman), 294 (sings, recites or utters any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place), and 354 (intending to outrage modesty) of the Indian Penal Code as well as a section of the Aircraft Rules Act in a case registered at the IGI Airport police station.